[net.motss] "Non-gay homosexuals"

riddle@im4u.UUCP (08/20/85)

>> At the risk of flogging a dead horse, let me suggest yet another reason why
>> we should prefer ''gay'' to ''homosexual''. I have known gay bisexuals,
>> non-gay bisexuals, and (strangest of the lot) non-gay homosexuals. It all
>> has to do with how you identify yourself, not whom you sleep with.

Whoops, I must have missed something.  "Non-gay homosexuals"?  Apparently
you're making a denotative distinction here between "gay" and "homosexual"
(as opposed to all the connotative distinctions that have already been made
in this newsgroup).  Can you clarify?

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